Antioxidant metabolism variation associated with alkali-salt tolerance in thirty switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) lines

• Guofu Hu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Guofu Hu, Yiming Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China, Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

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• Yiming Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Guofu Hu, Yiming Liu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America, Tropical Crops Genetic Resources Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) / Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement in Southern China, Ministry of Agriculture, Hainan Danzhou, P.R. China

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• Tianqi Duo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

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• Bingyu Zhao ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xuzhang@vt.edu (XZ); bzhao07@vt.edu (BZ)

  Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

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• Guowen Cui,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

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• Jing Ji,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

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• Xiao Kuang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

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• Erik H. Ervin,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America

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• Xunzhong Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xuzhang@vt.edu (XZ); bzhao07@vt.edu (BZ)

  Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7784-5747

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